Spoiler Alert: Ramis' talent is timeless

2:02 PM,
Feb. 27, 2014

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2009 file photo, actor and director Harold Ramis laughs as he walks the Red Carpet to celebrate The Second City's 50th anniversary in Chicago. An attorney for Ramis said the actor died Monday morning, Feb. 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory disease. He was 69. Ramis is best known for his roles in the comedies 'Ghostbusters' and 'Stripes.' AP Photo/Jim Prisching)

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Todd Hill
CentralOhio.com

"I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, 'Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.'" - Russell Ziskey (Harold Ramis) in the 1981 film "Stripes," also co-written by Ramis.

High school marching band practice, August 1981. During that entire month friends of mine, as they marched up and down the field south of the parking lot, quoted strange dialogue I wasn't able to recognize until I went to see the movie "Stripes," a comedy starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis.